Hi all

Can someone help me with the below issue:

I need to call a html file from a xsl, where the html file
name keeps changing ie., I will need to read the html file name
on a runtime basis when the xsl transformation happens.

Thanks
suri.

I don't know what you mean by "calling" an HTML file. One normally talks about calling a program, but an HTML file is data, not a program. What do you actually want to do with the HTML?

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/
Author, XSLT Programmer's Reference and XPath 2.0 Programmer's Reference

Hi Michael Kay

Sorry for not being clear enough.

Lets assume an example xxx.html. This xxx.html has a table tag with datas in it.

Now, what I want is, with in a XSL file at a particular place I want to show the xxx.html data.
Is that possible and how?

Remember xxx.html the file name will only be know at the time of XSL transformation.

thanks
Suri

Provided the HTML file holds well-formed XML you can do

<xsl:copy-of select="document($x)"/>

where $x is a variable holding the URI, for example "xxx.html".

If the HTML isn't well-formed XML, one option is to convert it first using the W3X JTidy utility. With some processors you can invoke this on the fly, by calling it from a URIResolver that's invoked when document() is called. An alternative with Saxon is to nominate John Cowan's TagSoup as your XML parser.

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/
Author, XSLT Programmer's Reference and XPath 2.0 Programmer's Reference

Thanks a lot, Michael.

<xsl:copy-of select="document($x)"/>,
is the one I was looking for.
That worked for me.

Thanks once again,
Suri